Hanging cabinet

ABSTRACT

A hanging cabinet includes a cabinet body having two vertical side panels and a vertical back panel and a plurality of forwardly extending storage chambers surrounded by the vertical side panel and the vertical back panel, a handing plate with a swivel hook provided at the top side of the cabinet body for hanging, and a plurality of side bags respectively mounted on the vertical side panels and vertical back panel of the cabinet body on the outside for keeping things.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

(a) Technical Field of the Invention

The present invention relates a cabinet and more particularly, to ahanging cabinet that can be hung inside a wardrobe or on an overheadplace to keep clothes or other things.

(b) Description of the Prior Art

Due to limited house space, people may hang a hanging cabinet on theback side of the door panel of the door of the kitchen or a wall insidea room for keeping small items. A conventional hanging cabinet is knowncomprising a body shell formed of tough and flexible sheet material (forexample, canvass) and arranged around the top, bottom left and rightsides, and a plurality of partition members arranged in the body shellat different elevations to divide the holding space of the body shellinto having a plurality of front-open compartments for keeping things. Atop opening may be formed in the top side of the body shell for themounting of a hanger for hanging on a hanging rod inside a wardrobe orat a wall. Hook and loop materials may be used to secure the hangingcabinet to a hanging rod inside a wardrobe or at a wall. According tothe aforesaid conventional design, the front-open compartments of thehanging cabinet each have a flat bottom wall that is kept in horizontal.Storage items may protrude over the front side of the front-opencompartments, destructing the sense of beauty of the hanging cabinet.Further, storage items may fall out of the front-open compartments whenthe hanging cabinet is vibrated accidentally, Further, afterinstallation of the hanging cabinet, the user cannot rotate the hangingcabinet through 360-degrees. This limitation narrows the application ofthe hanging cabinet.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary purpose of the present invention is to provide a hangingcabinet, which has additional side bags on the outside for keeping smallitems. It is another object of the present invention to provide ahanging cabinet, which has a swivel hook for hanging on an overheadplace so that the user can rotate the cabinet body to differentdirections convenient for arrangement of storage items.

According to one aspect of the present invention, the hanging cabinetcomprises a cabinet body, which has two vertical side panels, a verticalback panel, and a plurality of forwardly extending storage chamberssurrounded by the vertical side panels and the vertical back panel, anda plurality of side bags respectively mounted on the vertical sidepanels and the vertical back panel on the outside of the cabinet bodyfor keeping small items. The side bags can be made having at least onehorizontally extending open side, or a vertically upwardly extendingopen side.

According to another aspect of the present invention, two oblique roofpanels are joined together and respectively connected to the twovertical side panels of the cabinet body and define with the top wall ofthe cabinet body a triangular storage chamber.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, a tophanging plate with a swivel hook is provided at the top side of thecabinet body for hanging. By means of the swivel hook, the hangingcabinet can be hung on a rod member inside a wardrobe and freely rotatedthrough 360-degrees.

The foregoing object and summary provide only a brief introduction tothe present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects ofthe present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which willbecome apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detaileddescription of the invention and the claims should be read inconjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specificationand drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similarparts.

Many other advantages and features of the present invention will becomemanifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to thedetailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which apreferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of thepresent invention is shown by way of illustrative example.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a hanging cabinet according to thepresent invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an alternate form of the hanging cabinetaccording to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another alternate form of the hangingcabinet according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a hanging cabinet similar to FIG. 2, butshowing a vertical middle partition panel provided inside the cabinetbody of the hanging cabinet.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a hanging cabinet similar to FIG. 1, butshowing a vertical middle partition panel provided inside the cabinetbody of the hanging cabinet.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a hanging cabinet similar to FIG. 3, butshowing a vertical middle partition panel provided inside the cabinetbody of the hanging cabinet.

FIG. 7A is schematic front plain view of the top hook according to thepresent invention.

FIG. 7B is a side view of the top hook according to the presentinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The following descriptions are of exemplary embodiments only, and arenot intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of theinvention in any way. Rather, the following description provides aconvenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of theinvention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made inthe function and arrangement of the elements described without departingfrom the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

Referring to FIG. 1, a hanging cabinet in accordance with the presentinvention is shown comprising a cabinet body 1 made out of a tough andflexible sheet material (for example, canvass). The cabinet body 1 hastwo vertical side panels 11, a vertical back panel 12 connected betweenthe two vertical side panels 11 at a rear side, and a plurality ofhorizontal partition panels 13 respectively connected between the twovertical side panels 11 at different elevations and defining with thevertical side panels 11 and the vertical back panel 12 a plurality ofvertically spaced storage chambers 10 for keeping things. The horizontalpartition panels 13 may be directly stitched to the two vertical sidepanels 11 and the vertical back panel 12. Alternatively, hook and loopmaterials, snap means, or other fastening devices may be used to securethe horizontal partition panels 13 to the two vertical side panels 11and the vertical back panel 12.

As shown in FIG. 1, side bags 14 are respectively provided on theoutside of the vertical side panels 11 and the vertical back panel 18for keeping clothes or other small items. These side bags 14 areprepared from a flexible sheet material (canvass, meshed cloth) andstitched with transverse and longitudinal seam lines 142, therebyforming reversed pairs of pockets 141 at different elevations forkeeping things.

Further, the side bags 14 can be fastened to the vertical side panels 11and the vertical back panel 18 with hook and loop materials, snaps, orany suitable fastening means.

FIG. 2 shows an alternate form of the present invention. According tothis embodiment, each side bag 14 is stitched with only transverse seamlines, thereby defining a plurality of double open-end pockets atdifferent elevations.

FIG. 3 shows another alternate form of the present invention. Accordingto this embodiment, the vertical side panels 11 and vertical back panel18 each have a plurality of side bags 14 fixedly provided on the outsideat different elevations. Each side bag 14 has a top open side 143.

Referring to FIG. 1 again, the hanging cabinet further comprises a tophanging plate 15, two oblique roof panels 17 each having a bottom siderespectively connected to the vertical side panels 11 of the cabinetbody 1 and a top side respectively connected to the top hanging plate15, and a top hook 2 provided at the top center of the top hanging plate15 for hanging the cabinet body 1 on a rod member 3. Further, the twooblique roof panels 17 define with the top wall of the cabinet body 1 atriangular open space for keeping things.

Referring to FIGS. 7A and 7B, the top hook 2 is pivotally coupled to aholder frame 23 that is fastened to a rod 16 at the top side of thehanging plate 15. Bending a metal plate member into a predeterminedshape, having a through hole 231, makes the holder frame 23. Beforebending the metal plate member into shape to form the holder frame 23,the hook 2 is inserted through the through hole 231 with the expandedendpiece 21 thereof stopped at one side of the metal plate member.Further, a washer 22 is mounted on the hook 2 and stopped between theexpanded endpiece 21. After insertion of the hook 2 through the throughhole 231, the metal plate member is bent into shape around the rod 16 atthe top side of the hanging plate 15. When installed, the top hook 2 canbe rotated through 360-degrees relative to the hanging plate 15.

FIGS. 4˜6 show other different alternate forms of the present invention.These embodiments are respectively similar to the embodiments shown inFIGS. 2, 1 and 3 with the exception that a vertical middle partitionpanel 12 is provided inside the cabinet body 1, thereby separating eachstorage chamber 10 into two equal storage compartments.

It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or twoor more together may also find a useful application in other types ofmethods differing from the type described above.

While certain novel features of this invention have been shown anddescribed and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is not intendedto be limited to the details above, since it will be understood thatvarious omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the formsand details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be madeby those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the spiritof the present invention.

1. A hanging cabinet comprising a cabinet body, said cabinet body havingtwo vertical side panels and a vertical back panel and a plurality offorwardly extending storage chambers surrounded by said vertical sidepanel and said vertical back panel, and a plurality of side bagsrespectively mounted on said vertical side panels and said vertical backpanel outside of said cabinet body for keeping things, said side bagseach having at least one open side.
 2. The hanging cabinet as claimed inclaim 1, wherein said cabinet body and said side bags are respectivelyformed of a flexible sheet material.
 3. The hanging cabinet as claimedin claim 1, wherein said side bags each have at least one horizontallyextending opening side.
 4. The hanging cabinet as claimed in claim 1,wherein said side bags each have at least one vertically upwardlyextending open side.
 5. The hanging cabinet as claimed in claim 1,wherein said side bags include at least one first side bag each havingat least one horizontally extending open side and at least one secondside bag each having at least one vertically upwardly extending openside.
 6. The hanging cabinet as claimed in claim 1, further comprisingtwo oblique roof panels, said oblique roof panels each having a bottomside respectively connected to said vertical side panels of said cabinetbody and a top side connected to each other, said two oblique roofpanels defining with a top wall of said cabinet body a triangularstorage chamber.
 7. The hanging cabinet as claimed in claim 1, whereinsaid side bags are respectively fastened to said vertical side panelsand said vertical back panel of said cabinet body with stitches.
 8. Thehanging cabinet as claimed in claim 1, wherein said side bags arerespectively fastened to said vertical side panels and said verticalback panel of said cabinet body with hook and loop materials.
 9. Thehanging cabinet as claimed in claim 1, wherein said side bags arerespectively fastened to said vertical side panels and said verticalback panel of said cabinet body with snap means.
 10. The hanging cabinetas claimed in claim 1, further comprising a top hanging plate fixedlyfastened to the top side of each of said oblique roof panel, a holderframe fixedly provided at said hanging plate, and a swivel hook pivotedto said holder frame for hanging.